A Yank in the UK. Senior Lecturer, Newcastle University (civil rights mov't, modern US, oral history). New book: James Lawson's expulsion from Vanderbilt Univ.
Joined April 2012
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Read more about the ideas behind our policy paper in History & Policy on our blog, The Lug:
blogs.ncl.ac.uk/oral-history…
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Cambridge (UK) friends! I’ll be at the American History seminar on Monday May 18 talking from a new book project “Facing into the Wind: Hard Histories in Harder Times.” Jesus College at 16h with comment from Mia Bay.
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Remembering the conversation I had on @LeftOfBlack back in 2019 with @kehinde_andrews, whose work and institution building in #BlackStudies in the UK is under assault. We discussed his book 'Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century'
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"The Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Budget proposes to eliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and provides $38 million to conduct an orderly shutdown of the Agency." bit.ly/41M4pvK
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Metro's new Davidson County Historian is on a mission.
“If you have no knowledge of the past then something is fundamentally wrong ... The same is true for people, communities, neighborhoods, cities, and states.”
— Dr. Learotha Williams Jr.
wpln.org/post/5-lessons-from…
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10 Oct 2025
Celebrating BHM by highlighting Black figures & next is Una Marson from Jamaica, the BBC’s 1st Black female full time broadcaster & producer for her show, Calling The West Indies in 1941. As a creative, her work made space to discuss the importance of Black women in society
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23 Sep 2025
Bobby Cain, a member of the Clinton 12 who helped integrate Tennessee high schools in 1956, has died ow.ly/X8mT50X17NQ
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11 Sep 2025
Joseph McNeil was one of four students who staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960.
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7 Sep 2025
After weeks in the @BodleianLibraries archives last month @PeterBrathwaite visited the places in the papers—walking the land, meeting descendants, & confronting the living archive of his family's history.
For more of Peter's work, check out his website: peterbrathwaitebaritone.com/.
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23 Jul 2025
It's not every day — and not many podcasts — that get named to TIME's 100 Best Podcasts of All Time. But the honor includes WPLN's The Promise by @meribah!
A series that examines what happens in Nashville when "a great idea meets reality."
time.com/collections/100-bes…
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Ben Houston retweeted
16 Jun 2025
Honored to see this roundtable on our book go live at @BlkPerspectives.
16 Jun 2025
.@Blkperspectives is hosting an online roundtable on ‘From Rights To Lives: The Evolution of the Black Freedom Struggle’ edited by Françoise N. Hamlin and Charles W. McKinney Jr.. The roundtable begins on July 14, 2025 and concludes on July 18, 2025.
aaihs.org/online-roundtable-…
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28 Mar 2025
Perry Anderson on the advantages enjoyed by the populisms of the right over those of the left on the immigration issue. But I think he omits that populisms of the right, unserious about economic inequality, are in bed with oligarchy. A vulnerability that needs to be hammered.
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26 Mar 2025
Nashville's iconic Music Row comes to life with our newly unveiled oral history collection. axios.com/local/nashville/20…
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15 Feb 2025
We need a MEF - Management Excellence Framework.
If it's a great way to evaluate research and teaching, surely it'd do the same job in improving university governance!?
15 Feb 2025
"Financial mismanagement created biggest crisis institution has ever seen while university court failed to provide oversight & scrutiny of gargantuan failure of management"
No accountability of senior management @dundeeuniv
Common in entire HE sector
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11 Feb 2025
Today is Gloria Richardson Day, commemorating the civil rights hero who brought Maryland's fight for equality to the national stage. baltimoremagazine.com/sectio…
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